nukie19's review
5.0
Wild West. Civil War. Zombies?
When I heard about this concept, I was intrigued and honestly a little skeptical. By the time I finished the first of the 7 stories, I was hooked and completely impressed. The writing is fantastic. The plot of each story is different enough to stand alone, but all the stories fit together to build a bigger story as well. I'm not normally a big zombie book kind of person, but there was a subtleness to the description of the zombies and the action scenes were really secondary to the characters and their relationships. This book surprised me in a really good way. Highly recommend.
I received this book from the author in exchange for my honest review.
When I heard about this concept, I was intrigued and honestly a little skeptical. By the time I finished the first of the 7 stories, I was hooked and completely impressed. The writing is fantastic. The plot of each story is different enough to stand alone, but all the stories fit together to build a bigger story as well. I'm not normally a big zombie book kind of person, but there was a subtleness to the description of the zombies and the action scenes were really secondary to the characters and their relationships. This book surprised me in a really good way. Highly recommend.
I received this book from the author in exchange for my honest review.
serena_dawn's review
4.0
This is a omnibus of all seven books of Red Dust (collecting [b:The Lost Party|17800713|The Lost Party (Red Dust, #1)|Ben Dixon|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1366030272s/17800713.jpg|24901136], [b:Feud|18186875|Feud (Red Dust, #2)|Ben Dixon|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1373484039s/18186875.jpg|25571293], [b:The Last Rider|18658605|The Last Rider (Red Dust, #3)|Ben Dixon|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1381401476s/18658605.jpg|26475774], [b:King|20799525|King (Red Dust, #4)|Ben Dixon|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1392230101s/20799525.jpg|40143568], [b:Broken|22595251|Broken (Red Dust, #5)|Ben Dixon|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1403883062s/22595251.jpg|42077498], [b:Conquest|23533664|Conquest (Red Dust, #6)|Ben Dixon|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1415740642s/23533664.jpg|43135208] and "Death" which is not a stand alone and appears to only be available at this time in a whole volume of the series). This review will chiefly be about "Death".
Death ends and begins with Lister, Jobe and O’Loughlan in a bar, talking about the 'new' world which surrounds them, both apart and part of the larger story. In the beginning Griffin is in the bar with them, approached by Dr. Buck Tremain about saving King from the noose.
While Isaac, captured by bounty hunters Miao and Lincoln, after the deaths which still haunt him, is given up to Mr White's Christian cultist brother (lots of similarities with KKK), and unexpectedly meets Dr. Tremain for the same purpose of freeing King.
Once King is freed, they hire Miao and Lincoln to help them hunt down and kill the monstrous Risers which control the dead, on the way they encounter Captain Lizzy and are chased by White's men and met with Risers and a town of free slaves (of whom George is one), the town becomes a trap, the final tomb for the Risers - and likely, themselves as well.
In between "present" chapters are flashes of "future" 'The End', which is I think a bit reversed from the saying that at the end of your life you see flashes of the life you've lived.
Yet, I think the Epilogue of "Death" still leaves a bit of a mystery...
Death ends and begins with Lister, Jobe and O’Loughlan in a bar, talking about the 'new' world which surrounds them, both apart and part of the larger story. In the beginning Griffin is in the bar with them, approached by Dr. Buck Tremain about saving King from the noose.
While Isaac, captured by bounty hunters Miao and Lincoln, after the deaths which still haunt him, is given up to Mr White's Christian cultist brother (lots of similarities with KKK), and unexpectedly meets Dr. Tremain for the same purpose of freeing King.
Once King is freed, they hire Miao and Lincoln to help them hunt down and kill the monstrous Risers which control the dead, on the way they encounter Captain Lizzy and are chased by White's men and met with Risers and a town of free slaves (of whom George is one), the town becomes a trap, the final tomb for the Risers - and likely, themselves as well.
In between "present" chapters are flashes of "future" 'The End', which is I think a bit reversed from the saying that at the end of your life you see flashes of the life you've lived.
Yet, I think the Epilogue of "Death" still leaves a bit of a mystery...
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